Jalen’s 40 Helps Break Knicks Losing Streak To Nets
Photo: Special to the NY Beacon
By Samori Benjamin
The Brooklyn Nets shook up the NBA world by trading 13-time All-Star Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns in the middle of the night on the eve of the trade deadline. The move officially ends an era of Nets basketball that came with championship aspirations but ended up being controversial and unfulfilling more than anything else. In the trade the Nets got back forwards Cam Johnson and Mikal Bridges. Both players helped Phoenix reach the NBA Finals in 2021. Bridges is the iron man of today’s NBA with the longest consecutive game played streak, it stands now at 367 straight games.
Bridges and Johnson were not available for the Nets matchup against the Chicago Bulls just a few hours after the trade was made. Brooklyn was able to however debut the new pieces they got from Dallas in the Kyrie Irving trade earlier in the week. Spencer Dinwiddie, now in his second tour of duty with the Nets led the team with 25 points and six assists and swingman Dorian Finney-Smith finished with nine points and nine rebounds. Both got the start in their first game. Cam Thomas also had 20 points for Brooklyn and they won at home 116-105.
